3 Replies to “Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill”
Sadly, too near the truth to be funny!
To repeat myself somewhat ‘It smells horribly of them 1% and us… for how long will these decisions go unchallenged and tolerated?’
Despite all efforts to maintain and increase conservation/preservation of our raptors, despite all the resources being applied, we are faced, in light of the recent failings of the legal system, with a road that is leading to exactly nowhere.
Surely it is time to rethink strategies and how better various resources can be applied to best protect the conservation of ‘our’ raptors. How much time, money and effort has now been wasted by conservation organisations in protecting wildlife, simply to have those efforts destroyed by the vested interests of the hobbyists, killing protected species and destroying habitat on an industrial level without consequence?
I wish I had all the answers to how we overcome the establishment, the vested interests of those more connected than our 99% of the population. Perhaps there might be a case for channeling funds, in the name of conservation, more towards professional investigation of wildlife crime? It would seem infinitely more sensible to target funding towards the sources of the problem, rather than continuing to waste them on projects that fail through root cause.
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Without a change in strategy and tactics, we’re banging our heads against a brick wall. Quite what that change requires to be successful, I wish I knew. I’d like to think that the RSPB among others are bending their minds to it.
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Sadly, too near the truth to be funny!
To repeat myself somewhat ‘It smells horribly of them 1% and us… for how long will these decisions go unchallenged and tolerated?’
Despite all efforts to maintain and increase conservation/preservation of our raptors, despite all the resources being applied, we are faced, in light of the recent failings of the legal system, with a road that is leading to exactly nowhere.
Surely it is time to rethink strategies and how better various resources can be applied to best protect the conservation of ‘our’ raptors. How much time, money and effort has now been wasted by conservation organisations in protecting wildlife, simply to have those efforts destroyed by the vested interests of the hobbyists, killing protected species and destroying habitat on an industrial level without consequence?
I wish I had all the answers to how we overcome the establishment, the vested interests of those more connected than our 99% of the population. Perhaps there might be a case for channeling funds, in the name of conservation, more towards professional investigation of wildlife crime? It would seem infinitely more sensible to target funding towards the sources of the problem, rather than continuing to waste them on projects that fail through root cause.
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Without a change in strategy and tactics, we’re banging our heads against a brick wall. Quite what that change requires to be successful, I wish I knew. I’d like to think that the RSPB among others are bending their minds to it.